Software Engineer II

About us

Inkwell HQ is a 16-person team running a niche online store for vintage audio parts. Orders are packed by hand for two carrier pickups a day, and customer emails go to whoever is free.

The role

We are adding headcount to this team, so this is a new seat. The Software Engineer II will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. This role is fully remote within Portugal. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

In your first few months you will

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items

What you bring

• 2+ years of professional software development experience
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Benefits

Rate: €2,600-€2,900/month

• Remote work allowance
• Flexible start and finish times
• Private health insurance
• Meal vouchers
• Training budget

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Inkwell HQ.